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From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
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Subject: Re: hangs on boot
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 13:21:14 -0500
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> When I try to send e-mails to the *freebsd mailing
> lists* from my *SMTP* also *ISP* e-mail account it
> never makes it to the list. I was able to send e-mails
> to the list at one point then all of a sudden I can't.
> What about the sendmail hang? Do you know how to stop
> it from hanging like that at boot?

Please email postmaster@freebsd.org to work out your email issues.

As for sendmail hanging, this is usually caused because there is no network
connection up and running and sendmail is trying to do a reverse-DNS lookup
on the local hostname.

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Matt Emmerton


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